Known for the Walt Disney live-action adventures The Story of Robin Hood (1952), The Sword and the Rose

(1953) and Swiss Family Robinson (1960), he also directed the madcap comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their

Flying Machines and the World War II epic The Longest Day. Annakin, a friend of George Lucas, was used by

Lucas as the source of the name for Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars!

1951:

Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoon R'coon Dawg, featuring James Macdonald as the voice of Mickey, is released. Directed by Charles Nichols, Mickey hunts for raccoons, with help from Pluto. But the raccoon outsmarts Pluto at every turn, with help from a vine, a stream, and ultimately grabbing Mickey's coonskin cap and puppeteering it as a baby coon.

1955:

Chuck Abbott begins work at Disneyland as a ride operator on the Autopia.

Abbott has to really pay attention - as there is no track on the attraction (at this

time) and drivers frequently crash into anything and everything - including Cast Members! He will go on to become a foreman at Disneyland for 36 years and be named a

Disney Legend in 2005 (two years after his death) - a first for an hourly theme park Cast Member.

1959:

Walt Disney reads an article in The New York Times about the upcoming

1964 World's Fair in New York. He immediately sees opportunities for his company.

1960:

Disney's True-Life Adventure documentary Jungle Cat - narrated by

Winston Hibler - is released. The film, written and directed by James Algar, chronicles the life

of a female spotted jaguar in the South American jungle.

1994:

The Concourse Steak House opens at Walt Disney World, on the site of

the former Concourse Grill. It is located next to the escalators to the monorail station at Disney's Contemporary Resort's Grand Concourse (4th floor). (It will close in May 2008 to make way

for the counter service Contempo Cafe.)

1999:

Doreen Tracey, an original Mouseketeer (from 1955-1958), appears as a chat guest at Disney.com.

over-active imagination is set-off by scary stories on the radio and in books, thus giving him goose pimples!

1929:

Director Vincent McEveety is born in New Rochelle, New York. His Disney credits include The Million Dollar Duck, The Biscuit Eater, Superdad, The Strongest Man in the World, The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, and Herbie Goes Bananas. His two brothers Bernard and Joe directed films for Disney as well!

Animation Resort. Themed to the 1994 animated movie, the wing offers family

suites and completes the third phase of WDW's newest hotel. Featuring landscapes and

theming inspired by scenes from the Academy Award-winning movie, the resort places guests into African terrains, surrounded by vibrant trees and whimsical scenery.

(The fourth and final phase, themed after The Little Mermaid, will open in September.)

August 10

This Day in Disney History - THE FIRST - THE ORIGINAL

Traveling in time since 1999!

2013:

During a gathering of Disney fans at day 2 of 2013 D23 Expo, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Chairman Tom Staggs premieres a trailer from an upcoming movie that explores the past, present and future of Walt Disney Imagineering by noted documentary

filmmaker Leslie Iwerks. Iwerks comes from a family with deep Disney history — her grandfather Ub was an

early Disney animator and her father Don is a former Imagineer — and her previous work includes profiles of Pixar

Animation Studios and visual effects house Industrial Light & Magic. The film is due for release in 2016.

Other events on this day include:

-Inside the Ice: The Art of Disney’s Frozen

-Eight new Disney Legends are honored at the D23 Expo during a ceremony at 2:00 pm.

-Voices of the Disney Parks

-ABC’s Once Upon a Time: Behind the Fairy Tale

-Richard M. Sherman and Alan Menken: The Disney Songbook

2018:

The Disney musical television film Freaky Friday debuts on Disney Channel. Based on the

book "Freaky Friday" by Mary Rodgers and the Disney Theatrical Productions stage adaptation by Bridget Carpenter,

the film stars Cozi Zuehlsdorff and Heidi Blickenstaff. A woman and her rebellious 16-year-old daughter swap bodies

through the magical power of a treasured hourglass. When it accidentally shatters, they must search for a matching

hourglass so they can return to their own bodies.

1989:

Actor Brenton Thwaites is born in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. He portrayed Prince Phillip

in the 2014 Maleficent and Henry Turner in the 2017 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.

2010:

Disney Channel is launched in Russia. It replaces the children's television channel Jetix.